Celebrating Christmas

Amazingly enough, Christmas 2011 has already come & gone. It's been a busy few weeks, and while I'm sad all the anticipation & excitement are over, we're looking forward to relaxing for the next 2 weeks before school starts back.

Here's a peek at what we've been up to.

Jacob & Cole's preschool class has a cookie decorating party.
Here are a few photos from their preschool Christmas program.
As usual, we spent Christmas Eve goofing off before bedtime. This year the boys decided to stay awake to listen for Santa. That made for a long night for all of us!
And a few shots from Christmas morning. As you can see, Star Wars is still all the rage with the Walters boys.

Birthday fun!

Last weekend was Jacob & Cole's 5th birthday party! This was their first "friend party" and they chose to have it at the martial arts school. It was so much fun!! They played taekwondo games, broke boards, and burned lots of energy with their friends. There were several kids there who do not take taekwondo, but it was really fun for everyone.


On Tuesday we celebrated their actual birthday. The day started with the kids waking up to find that our mischievous elf, Luke, had hung streamers from their bedroom door during the night. What a fun way to start the day! Per their request, they celebrated with cupcakes for a snack at school and red velvet cake at home in the evening.

Just for fun I dug out these photos from the day they were born. Goodness how things have changed in the last 5 years!


Moving on (before I need to break out the tissues)...

Owen walked in the door after school a couple of weeks ago with this mustache on. His teacher gave them to all the kids to go along with a book they're reading in class. I think the mustache really suits him! ;-)

And finally, a rare photo of Lucky 2. She is getting so big and has become much more social over the past couple of months. We're planning to get her a friend pretty soon, but in the meantime she & Diego have become quite fond of each other. At least twice a day I find them sniffing each other through the slats of her cage.

Halloween 2011

I won't lie. October almost did me in. Marshall, too, I think. Our work schedules were hectic (the busiest month all year for both of us), there were baseball games, taekwondo classes, teacher conferences, field trips, school parties, birthday parties for friends...you get the idea. It was chaos at times, but we survived and had lots of fun in the process.

State Police Troop A Day:




Jacob & Cole's school party:
Trick or Treat!!


Owen {Luke Skywalker as an x-wing fighter pilot}


Cole {Luke Skywalker from Episode IV}


Jacob {Snake Eyes from GI Joe}